THE HORSE GAZETTE
health
the way of the horse
poisoned! yes or no?
By Eleanor Blazer © 2010
Has your dog been On the way to the
If you think your pet
poisoned? emergency clinic her owners
has eaten rat poison, call your
Some friends are thought she had died; only a re-
veterinarian immediately. The
building a house and riding action to having her eye touched
sooner you start treatment the
facility, and invited us to see showed she still lived.
better chance your pet will have
the progress. At first the attending
of recovering. Once the dog
“Bring Tex and veterinarian was not sure what
starts presenting symptoms it
Tina; they can play with Sesi was happening to Kaila. Luck-
is often to late. System failure
2 x 48 Shed Row
and Kaila. The property is all ily he ran a prothrombin time
and death will occur quickly.
fenced.” The dogs are friends test.
Do not take a “wait and see”
and have a great time playing. The PT test showed a
attitude.
While we walked the problem with the blood and its
There are other in-
property, the dogs romped. clotting ability. Kaila was put
gredients used in rat poisons
Thirty hours later on life support IVs and vitamin
that do not respond to vitamin
Kaila was fighting for her life. K1. She stabilized and started
K treatment. Take the package
Kaila had been poi- a slow recovery.
or product information to the
soned. Kaila’s vet recom-
vet.
8 x 0 Run-In Shed
0x28 with 8’ Tack
The veterinarian mended all the dogs be started
Rodents can be a
thought it was rat poison. on oral vitamin K1. If the
problem around horses and
The active ingredient dogs had been exposed to an
livestock. Keeping the facility
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Cleaning up the area
Once the vitamin K reserves scription to get vitamin K1.
is safer. Eliminate any sources
within the body are depleted, We called our veteri-
of feed. This includes bird
the poison prevents more from narian and explained what hap-
feeders, outside pet food con-
being produced and the victim pened. He didn’t have any oral
tainers or stored feed bags.
begins to bleed internally. vitamin K1 in stock. He placed
The use of live box traps or
It can take several an order and had it overnighted
glue boards is an alternative to
days, and in some instances to us.
poisons.
weeks for vitamin K reserves I asked our vet about
Kaila continues to

to be depleted. For this reason having the dogs tested. He
recover. Sesi, Tex and Tina
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The source of Kaila’s
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poisoning is unknown.
toms may be pale gums, lethar- even a week could come back
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Kaila did not present side affects reported.
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